any moment. it's been a is seven-week long battle but mainly it's been held up over politics. this first vote that will come this morning is procedural. if that moves forward, a second vote to confirm him would happen this afternoon. check out the headline from "the huffington post," immigration and customs enforcement frees detainees as sequester looms. they were let out as the budget cuts loom. the president is heading to newport news, virginia, to a navy shipyard. today the impact there could be significant. late word this morning that the president will bring a local republican congressman, scott rigell, with him. obama is not seen in newport news as any sort of safe you're

but rather as the leader of dysfunctional government that is playing havoc with people's lives and people are bitter. >> this is not time for a road show president. this is a time to look for someone who will leave. >> the president really ought to stop come paining and come back to the take and work with us. >> and while there are no 11th hour meetings, no real negotiations, but lots of finger pointing, the president says there is still time for a deal. >> here's the thing. these cuts do not have to happen. congress can turn them off any time with just a little bit of compromise. >> john boehner has just come to the microphones. let's listen. >> i don't think the president's focused on trying to find a solution to the sequester. the president has been traveling all over the country and today going down to newport news in order to use our military men

and women as a problem in yet another campaign rally to support his tax hike. now, the american people know the president gets more money, they are just going to spend it. and the fact is, he has gotten his tax hikes. it ti it's time to focus on the real problem and that is spending. the president has known for 16 months that this sequester was looming out there. when the supercommittee failed to come to an agreement. and so for 16 months, the president has been traveling all over the country holding rallies instead of sitting down with senate leaders in order to forge an agreement to move the bill. we have moved the bill in the house twice. we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. >> good morning. as the speaker said, the president is going to be in knew

newport news, virginia. i'm concerned about families in the commonwealth. i'm concerned because they are concerned about the uncertainty that looms because of this sequester. now, the president has said, well, he wants to compromise but if you take a look at what's been going on, there's been four years of spending increases and now the president says, we can't have any progress on this sequester until we get the second tax hike in eight weeks. that's not compromise. then he says, your choice is going to be letting criminals out of jails and on to the streets or give me a tax increase. that's not compromise. that's a false choice. you know, we have tried in the house, as the speaker said again, to bring forward measures that actually accomplish reform and cut spending. we've even taken things that the president has had in his very own budget to say, please join

us. he won't accept those proposals unless we raise taxes. now, it's time for the senate to come together with us, sit down with the president, let's get this resolved for the american people. >> as many of you know, you've heard about this argument for quite some time. let's put it in perspective. this idea came from the white house. when the house passed the bill twice, what did the president do? he threatened to vet toe if we dealt something different on sequestration. now as the time looms, the president does exactly what he continued to do. he does a road show. the fundamental question here the president has to decide, does he want to be president of a political party or does he want to be president of the united states? it is time for leadership. >> i want to bring in "the washington post" editor. good morning. >> good morning. >> we're hearing the same things that we've been hearing, andy, over the last several days but

is that going on here? there are no meetings that we're hearing about. chris van hollen even admitted that to us, no negotiations are going on. so if we're about to hit a crisis point, is all that we're going to get out of this receipt for sflik. >> i rhetoric? >> i tell you, the speaker boehner is swearing at them front of the microphones. no indications that there are meetings scheduled between the two chambers, the two branches of government at all and this rhetoric is continuing. they are trying to get out ahead of the president before he goes down to newport news. you referenced what i heard. pretty powerful demonstration of how upset the americans are. the president going down there to try to point that out to congress. congress saying, look, he's

exploiting the military for his own political purposes. he should be back here in washington cutting a deal. >> it is interesting, don't you think, now he's got a republican congress who is going to show up with him and i guess it begs the question about when we start really feeling this, when you have people who are being looking for jobs in newport news, when you have people hearing that there are detainees who are being let go. could that move the needle here? >> yeah, it could move the needle. we've already have, for instance, janet napolitano, the department of homeland security, come out and say, you know, we could be less saves as a country with these cuts. the types of work or furloughs is some of the pain that we feel. the agencies affected are trying to soften the blow. it could be a week or two before people are feeling it, they are not going to work, paychecks are smaller, agencies are grappling with less cash there. is a little bit of a cushion there and maybe that's a point when republicans and democrats and the president can really get

together and cut some kind of a deal because as said, they are not doing anything right now. they are not talking at all right now. >> republicans are pushing a plan that would allow the president so redistribute the cuts. i don't know. does that have any chance, ed? >> not necessarily. we talked to john mccain at length after a vote on the senate floor. he said, why would we spend months approving an authorization bill only for the defense secretary to decide where to make cuts? so i think you would see some republican resistance to that kind of a plan on top of a potential democratic opposition. that's one republican proposal. the democratic proposal which may get a vote later this week would end direct payments to farmers which was part of the bipartisan farm bill passed last year, one of the few bipartisan things to get through the senate and died in the house. the other thing democrats would do is raise taxes on the wealthy. that also expected to fail in

the senate. >> all right. we're waiting to hear from nancy pelosi as we just heard from speaker boehner. i want to bring in a republican of virginia and member of the armed services committee. good morning, congressman. >> good morning, chris. how are you? >> the impact in virginia would be 90,000 civilians furloughed from d.o.d., army base funds cut by $146 million. navy canceled maintenance on ships. what are your big concern cans? >> the impact on virginia's economy. we look at it and know there could be up to 200,000 jobs affected by this, both direct and indirect. a $20 million impact. i think that we have a pathway forward. there's been a lot of ideas about how do we reduce spending equal to the $85 billion to meet the sequester deadline. that could be done.

i want to make sure that we put those ideas forward and charter a path forward so that men and women in uniform, as well as is civilian employees that support our military have what they need to do the job of defending this nation. >> so how do we get there? your colleague has suggested, as lindsey graham has, that he might be open to revenue. are you? >> well, i want to make sure that we look at the spending side of the equation. we already have $600 billion in increased revenue. i want to make sure that we look at the expenditure side. we ought to be looking at reducing spending. a lot of ideas have been put out there on the table. the president speaks on a balanced approach. the balance is $600 billion in new revenue. let's look at how we can reduce this budget. we're talking about reducing it by 2.4%. just decreasing the rate of growth in the budget. we can do that. i am confident that we can do that. >> let me interrupt you,

congressman. this is live. i want to go to nancy pelosi. >> how it affects individuals in our country. we've just come back from, what, a ten-daybreak. we've listened to members as to what they heard from the public and what our constituents are telling us is to get the job done. we're doing just that with the proposal under the leadership of chris can van hollen, our ranking democrat on the budget committee. he'll talk about our proposal, which we had on the table for a while. our chairman talked about jobs. month after month after month of private sector job increases. remarkable that can be reversed if we have the sequester, which is harmful to growth and harmful to job creation in addition to being harmful. for example, members told me about psychiatric nurses who deal with ptsd by returning vets who will be furloughed.

is that what the american people want? i don't think so. we're practically, when you talk about jobs, that's one thing. when you talk about time, we've been gone for ten days. we'll be gone by thursday at 3:00 when we have a deadline facing us. we're practically becoming a drive-by congress. a drive-by congress when we have important work to do. the republican leadership says, well, we passed bills last year. i remind them, that was a different congress. that doesn't count in this congress. the republican congress says, let the senate begin. appropriations in revenue bills must begin in the house. so we have important work to do. the american people want us to work together. we want something big, bold, balanced, and bipartisan that can take us. republicans say they are kicking the can down the road. i don't think they are even kicking the can down the road. they are nudging the poe pat toe across the table with their nose. there is not much being accomplished by what they are

doing. this is just completely irresponsible. it's mindless. most people don't even know what sequester means. sequestration means unemployment. sequestration, we don't want it and we can work here to make sure we get the job done. so again i salute the president of taking the message to the american people. i believe what the republicans are doing with the sequestration, one deadline after another, little deadline after another is a subtrifuge to not getting the work done. we want to pass immigration reform, we want to pass gun safety legislation, we want to create jobs. we have our important work here to do here. we really do have a day job instead of just this job of avoidance behavior that the republicans are putting forth. so again, let's be positive. let's take the lead of mr. van hollen or patty murray in the senate with proposals that cut

spending, increase revenue, create growth with jobs. >> congressman whitman, listening to what nancy pelosi said, let's talk about the drive-by congress. speaker boehner controls the schedule. they don't get it. they have to go to work every day. they don't understand why you folks aren't talking to each other. they don't understand why there's not progress. they don't understand why there's so many news conferences, frankly. how do you get this done? it seems to me that you are against any revenue. is there going to be some give there on both sides? >> i want to make sure that we are talking about, as the president said, that balanced apprch. i want to make sure that we have talk about spending and making sure that we do that. i stood strong back in august to say we need to stay in washington then to get this done and through the september/october time frame. we need to stay here now and

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we are on top of several live events related to the sequester deadline. right now at capitol hill, art tea talking about the impact of the budget cuts on the pentagon. in the senate they are expected to finally clear the way for confirmation vote to chuck hagel who will inherit this budget mess. janet napolitano, you see her on the right there, also speaking live at the brookings institution. and then just moments ago, we heard from a fired-up john boehner who blames the stalemate on the president and the senate. >> we have moved a bill in the house twice. we should not have a move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. >> i'm joined by military analyst jack jacobs. good to see you. >> good morning. >> if lawmakers can't make this march 1st deadline, $43 billion or 8% will be slushed from the pentagon budget. they have used words like

devastating, dire. are they right? how significant would this be? >> very serious indeed. these are across the board cuts. i mean, there's no intelligence or intelligent decisions made on what is going to be cut. so in addition to fact -- and there's plenty of fact -- you are going to cut ammunition, fuel, repair parts for aircraft, training time. >> let's look at other things. 800 million sif general furloughs, reduced western pacific navy operations by up to one-third. what concerns you the most? >> between army readiness, which is in dire straits as a result of these cuts, and moving a carrier battle group, another carrier battle group to the middle east. we are withdrawing under pressure of afghanistan and the worst situation would be not to be covered by aircraft.

>> afghanistan might be part of the problem. a watchdog group says their accounting is so opaque, we don't know how this millions of dollars is being spent. a retired commander in afghanistan says that it's egregiously inefficient and leaking money. >> well, he's right about that. 25,000 or more people work there every day. there are repetitive bureaus and bureaucracies that do the same thing from office to office. a lot of time is spent trying to woo congress, fighting each other to get money and all the rest of it. there's plenty of fact there and somebody with some brains ought to go over there and cut the fat there for sure. >> colonel jack jacobs, thank you. >> good to be with you. a hot air balloon filled with tourist exploded and at least 19 people were killed.

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supreme court this week. prop 8 bans same-sex marriage. the move supporting gay marriage is the latest sign of division within the republican party and joining me to talk about it, msnbc contributor robert traynham and byron dorgam, senior adviser. robert, let me start with you. >> it is a huge and significant step forward. as a gay american, let me say that the conservative argument has been that it should be a state's right argument. for them to come out and say this a state's right issue, they have the right to liberty and pursuit of happiness, it's a good thing. it's deconstructing the argument that gay marriage is a threat to traditional marriage. nothing could be further from the truth. when you look at the numbers and statics, traditional marriage,

quite frankly, is much more in trouble than a gay marriage. i think this is a significant step forward and breaks down that whole conservative argument that it's a threat to conservative marriage. >> and it is a contrast to the conservative party platform. let me read to you what jon huntsman said. conservatives should start to lead again and push their states to join the nine other states that allow gays to marriage. there is nothing conservative about denying americans the right to marriage the one they love. do you they they are leading the charge and giving cover? they are not the ones that have to face their constituents. >> i think it's real progress and i welcome it. i think it will cause very deep divisions in the republican party. look, this is a process that we're going through. change is very hard. it's always been hard in this country, whether you're talking

about worker rights, gay rights. but the gay right issue and the right to marry is moving much more rapidly than most people thought and i think that's welcome news. >> do you think possibly, robert, that this could sway a conservative justice when they file this friend of a court brief? >> well, yes and no. the reason why i say no is i take issue with the question. true conservatives have always said that it's a state's right issue. when you look at the way the supreme court has ruled on certain cases from a libertarian standpoint, one could make the argument that they should probably reaffirm gay marriage. so i don't necessarily see that many conservative justices would vote against gay marriage. i don't see that happening, actually. >> do you think this change -- and it's clear, senator, that minds have been changed on this issue. the polls show it. some of the people who signed this brief are people who in the past have opposed gay marriage.

does that extend to the supreme court? >> well, i don't know. it's hard to predict what this supreme court does in any circumstance. let me go back, if i might, a couple of months. you asked the question about what does this mean to the political system? you know, just several months ago, through the republican primaries, the issue of gay marriage and immigration were wedge issues and so i think this is going to be an interesting thing to watch with respect to how this brief relates to particularly the more conservative wing of the republican party. so this suggests significant progress. the american people are always ahead of the political system. the political system, i think, will catch up. >> i know you're enthusiastic about this, robert, but are you truly optimistic? >> i am optimistic. let me go back a point there. are some people -- i don't want to put rose-colored glasses

here. there are some people adamantly against that. the question is whether or not their voices and their power will be able to drown out the progressive voices in the republican party. i think that the american people, i think that gay americans, i think that most politicians are finally seeing that this is just a simple right to pursuit of happiness. this is a simple right of individuals marrying the person that they want to spend the rest of their life with. >> does this give some openings potentially for some democrats who might want to have some conversations with their republican colleagues on their fence and give them a nudge here? >> it may. again, when you strip away all of the language, this is about values and there are some who, as you know in the last year or so, have continued to insist that -- as some have said, if we

allow gays to marriage, that will threaten other marriages. that is absurd, in any judgment. but, again, this is going to be a real significant values debate, particularly among conservative republicans and i don't know where it ends up. >> former senator byron dorgan and robert traynham, thank you. the midwest is getting hit about a major snowstorm. flights in and out of kansas city international have been canceled. numerous roads are closed. the storm is being blamed for two deaths already. the parents of trayvon martin will be in new york city tonight for a candlelight vigil marking one year since the 17-year-old was shot as he walked through his father's gated community in florida. george zimmerman claims he shot martin in self-defense. he goes on trial in june. that prompted a conversation about race and stand your ground laws. they will be thomas robert's

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tonight, pbs will debut the groundbreaking women's stories assembled on video. the makers documentary tells the stories of 160 women who have helped shape america through the women movement, including the 19

1960 protest. >> we did have a sense of humor and we had outrageousness. >> we had a freedom trash can through which we called object of women's oppression, like brooms and dust pans and curlers and high-heeled shoes and girdles. >> joining me a author and activist. what a pleasure to have you both here. >> good to be here. >> a lot of people have called this the birth of the women's movement. >> i know. >> where are we and how has it changed? >> well, we are huge and it's worldwide and it's passionate and sophisticated and it's changed lives in a way that i think sometimes younger women don't fully -- can't fully grasp because we're an ahistoric

country here. for example, when i got married, i was a published writer so i used my own name and i was shocked to discover that i couldn't use my driver's license. i couldn't get a savings account in my own name anymore. i couldn't get a loan. >> and when you tell these stories to 20 somethings, one of the surprising things that i found in this, they interviewed -- i guess you would call them movers and shakers in their 20s, young women who are successful and powerful but don't identify with the movement at all. >> what i often say to people who are quick to say i'm not a feminist is, if you're not a feminist, give it all back. you know, once you start enumerating what has actually been accomplished by women struggle over the past 50 years, you realize these women won't have the choices that they had. they wouldn't enjoy the stature. they wouldn't be paid attention

to. when i graduated from college, you had to look only at the help wanted women columns of the new york sometimes. you couldn't go out and apply for any job and be judged on the merits and on your training and on your competence. hu to go to the receptionist job, the secretary job, the telephone operator job or the nurses or -- >> i was told one time, even though i deserved the promotion, they were giving it to the man because they had a family. you tell these story to college student and they say, why didn't you go and sue and they don't really understand how much has really happened. >> yes. >> it's huge. i think the magic of makers, as a dock meant tree, this fantastic website -- >> how many hits? how many views? >> almost 40 million views of this largest archive, well over 1,000 videos by women who have made change and to me the most

moving ones are not even the better known people, the activist/feminist leaders but they are the quote/unquote ordinary women who just wanted to run in the boston marathon. >> that story, the first woman who ran in the boston marathon -- >> the woman who wanted to play in little league or be a firefighter. >> or the woman who admits that she didn't think anyone else was being battered, only in her marriage was misery or abuse and miss magazine and recognizing that other people in the same mode empowered her and helped her believe differently about herself. >> we talked a lot when i was young how we had to get more women in positions of power. congress is doing far better than they were in the number of women although they are not all certainly progressive women. >> right. >> you also look at the equal

pay. >> it's so crazy, chris. if women got equal pay, there would be more money pouring in to the economy because women are spending it on -- they are not saving it. they are spending it on -- the bottom line is, it's just and it's fair and that's why women should have equal pay. but the truth is also, it's good for men, it's good for families and good for the country. violence against women, the history that we in the women's movement and we started at a time when contraception was illegal and we're trying to fight the same battles. the idea that there's one woman, who should remain nameless, you

have already seen in the previous three hours what it took to get to the point where she could say, don't need it. and you realize the echo in your head, is that in just this past presidential election, contraception became an issue again. >> it's shocking in 2013. >> you know, discussing the redefinition of rape as an issue again, is abortion accessible and not legal on paper, this movement has to continue and everything that you see on makers has to, i hope, rev up this generation to keep fighting. >> people should watch it. we are out of time. we owe you a great debt for all that you have done and for coming in to talk about this. >> right back at you. >> two pioneers from this movement. >> thank you so much. >> pioneers. and you can catch the dock meant tree "makers, women who make america" tonight on pbs. today's tweet comes from my colleague at cnbc. if you make $100,000 a year, you

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the senate finance committee has voted 17-5. all of the democrats on the committee voted yes. while controversy continues to hang like a cloud over the retirement of pope benedict, the vatican this morning revealing decisions about his future. we've just learned the pope will be called pope ameritus. when addressing him, he would call him, his holiness, he will wear the white cape but not the one he wore as pope. they will be replaced with brown shoes. i'm joined by a father of the diocese. thank you for joining us.

>> thank you, chris. >> there were allegations by priests and former priests. church scholars say there has not been this much drama surrounding a conclave since 1800s. another father says it looks like amateur hour s is it in. >> there hasn't been this much controversy but it makes for interesting conversation can, doesn't it it? >> it makes interesting conversation but how might they impact the reduction in the past? >> the number of cardinals who can vote, and so now the controversy swirling around cardinal mahony. will he stay or will he go or recuse himself? >> he got support from a few people that have suggested that this can be separate. in fact, it was cardinal o'brien, one of the people suggested if you make one decision with one thing, doesn't mean you can't make a good

decision in another. what about cardinal mahony? there have been protests in california. if it is appropriate, would it be the right and i guess some people would argue the humble thing to do would be to step aside? >> well, yeah. he certainly lacks humility. as an american i think he has the right to vote and to a jury trial when he gets back. >> let me ask about the pope deciding to let one other person see this report. they call it vatileaks. he's head to his butler, i forgive you. but there is such an issue of transparency in the church and so many questions raised about it. what do you think about this decision that only he and the pope, the next pope will actually get to see what this report says? >> well, be we have two days left to the pontiff to leave to his success for to handle. those were known in italy before

it broke in u.s. when i was living in rome, that was a topic of discussion. it's been brewing for a while. >> subject of a lot of intrigue. >> definitely. >> obviously when you have books that talk about albino monks and things like that, it feeds an idea of a very secretive, intriguing kind of organization. is it like that? >> yeah. this is the kind of stuff that even brown can't make up, right? >> yes. it's like a novel. >> and how much politics. that's the question is always get asked. we're a station that watches for politics. i don't know if there's anything quite comparable to what is going on. certainly because we've never had a living pope before. often they were distracted by the funeral, planning for a funeral, honoring the previous pope. that's not happening now. is part of the reason all of this conversation is happening

is because there is this kind of void? >> it's a benefit, actually. the cardinal will have time to take their time to choose carefully the right man. some of that politics might work against them where they will have to reconsider where are the issues? the facing book, internet, news travels fast. they are going to have to think this thing brew. it's not going to be like business in the old days where you push the candidate that you want through. these cardinals are a mix. they don't know each other as well. >> that's one thing. there are a number of new cardinals, including cardinal of new york, right? >> and cardinal from philippines like pope john paul ii. >> do you think this is overshadowed over a time that should be honoring pope benedict? >> yes. i think it is. he's a humble man, a very kind man. if you were to meet him and you're a nobody, he speaks to you as if you're the most important person in the world.

he's a very humble world. in his heart, he's a good man. he loves the church and wants the best for the church. think about it. is there anyone in the world who has put down power willingly? >> certainly in this country. when is the conclave going to start? >> probably monday the congregations will begin and shortly there after they will start that conclave. they want a pope by easter. they know the world is watching them. it's important to the church and to the larger world. >> father, great to have you here. >> thank you. appreciate it. that wraps up this hour of "jansing & co." i'm chris can jansing. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so. [ male announcer ] for years, bob took warfarin, and made a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but not anymore.

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